Roger Webb

Retired Supreme Court Justice Jim Nelson has an excellent guest post up about the presidential race “So What Next,” so I won’t add anything here. Here’s what I’ll say now about some other races: Victories for Steve Bullock (he’s up by about 12,000 votes over Gianforte at the…

The recurrent Montana State University-Billings poll was published Tuesday and shows Steve Bullock with a commanding lead,12 points at 44-32, and so it looks like the Governor is in strong shape. Gianforte’s negative campaign has been largely ineffective and this new poll is a deflating…

New revelations show Webb is more deeply mired in political embarrassment than we thought. Things are not looking good for one Roger Webb (R-TEA Billings) who we learned last week was convicted of poaching on private land for which he was fined and received a suspended…

The Helena IR reported late yesterday that GOP Sen. Roger Webb was convicted of poaching, taking an extra trophy deer he didn’t have a tag for, on private property he didn’t have permission to hunt on no less. Webb was fined and given a suspended…

TEA Partier Testifies that his ALEC Bill Has Nothing to Do with ALEC, Public Records Show Otherwise A TEA Party lawmaker with ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC has been caught coordinating with the organization on an ALEC model bill after claiming…

Yes America, here are some of the major pieces of legislation that have been put forward in 2015 by the Tea Party Republicans who are now in control of the Montana legislature. This is not a joke. These are real bills, and they are currently taking…

Closed Primaries At the Flathead Memo, James Conner explains why Republicans are unlikely to adopt Monforton’s closed primary resolution. As usual, it’s a good analysis. Freedom Fighters At the Missoula Independent, reporter Ted McDermott has an incredible piece on a Montana militia member who organized militia…

It’s been another wacky year if TEA Party nutjob antics. From voting to keep prison sentences for being gay to a slew of racist remarks and terrible ideas, Montana elected officials, TEA Party activists, and candidates brought the crackpot craziness to mainstream politics in an…

by Cowgirl If you want to appreciate the failure that marks GOP ideas, consider the latest from Wendy Warburton. This TEA Party Republican has brought back a bill to legalize discrimination in insurance pricing that has previous failed to pass no fewer than 22 times….

by Cowgirl On Tuesday, the Montana Senate voted, finally, to erase our “anti-sodomy law” which makes it an imprisonable crime to be gay. Although invalidated by our state supreme court in 1997, the law has remained on our books because Republicans have always refused to…

by Cowgirl It might surprise you to hear this, but right-wing Republicans actually agree with President Obama that America needs a radical change in our gun laws. It’s just that they have a different idea of what those changes should be. In the Montana Legislature…

In a little over a month, legislators from across Montana will descend on Helena to make the laws you must live by. Let’s meet them. 1-Rep. David Howard (R-TEA Park City), Chair of the House Human Services Committee. Rep. Howard is on the record saying…

As of the time of this posting, with vote counts still coming in, it looks like the make-up of the Montana senate may be 21 Democratic senators to 29 Republicans in the next legislative session. Democrats and Republicans appear to have won an equal…

The Billings Gazette is reporting today that Republican Roger Webb was convicted of beating and shooting his neighbors’s pets Katie and Alli, both black labs. Webb claims he was defending himself against dogs after he said they acted aggressively toward him. However, court documents show…